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soneca on Jan 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How the 'John Oliver Effect' Is Having a Real-Life...

His show about World Cup in Brazil was a real eye-opening for a lot of brazilians. It was shared a lot around here and it was the best way available to explain what was wrong with Wordl Cup and FIFA. I don't know about any "real impact" other than making people more informed about what was happening, which is a great deal, as the local media wasn't able to accomplish it.

dspillett on Jan 22, 2015 [–]

Informing people is the first step to causing any impact on this sort of thing, so that alone is pretty significant.

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